March 1978
Contents
In the Image of God
Marion G. Romney
How to Be a Full-time Father
Orson Scott Card
Being a Mother-Person
Afton J. Day
The High Cost of Inactivity
Lindsay R. Curtis
Mormon: The Man and the Book, Part 1
Jeffrey R. Holland
I Have a Question
Should I work or stay home with my preschooler and then accept government welfare?
R. Quinn Gardner
How can parents best help their children prepare and present talks?
Clarissa Whitney
What might we do to make a deceased child part of our family in mortality?
Marvin R. VanDam
Has it ever been the practice for the whole congregation to kneel during the sacrament?
James B. Allen
The Saints in Puerto Rico
Nonmember Friends: The Richness of Diversity
Linda King Newell
Encounter at the Stamp Machine: A Great Kind of Missionary Story
Lee W. Farnsworth
Announcing Winners of the 1978 Writing Contests
We Outlived Wisconsin’s Ice Storm
Jeanne Noble Randall
Dandelions
Penny Allen
Poetry
Lucy Mack Smith
Linda Madsen Sheffield
Journey of a Blind Grandmother, Ending
Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown
Water from a Basin
Randall T. Hall
Legacy
Carolyn G. Depp
A Mother’s Testament
Helen Mar Cook
Costly Harvest
What Makes a Family?
Carol Lynn Pearson and Newell Dayley
Mormon Media
How Can We Make the Best Decisions?
Neil J. Flinders
Preparing Our Daughter for Baptism
Carol Loughmiller
Mirthright
Random Sampler
Crib Sheets Are Thrifty
Judith A. Gile
New Food Parties
Lori Kraykovic
Update on Gluten
Discovery
Joseph Smith’s Surgeon
Le Roy S. Wirthlin
Can You Read Deseret?
Glenn N. Rowe
Between Scriptural Lines
Steven C. Walker
Mormon Journal
The Kite
Linda A. Steele
News of the Church
New Temple Announced for South Salt Lake Valley
New Materials Bring Gospel to Developing Areas
Janet Brigham
New Oratorio Highlights Mormon Festival of Arts
Illustration Competition Announced
Church Policies and Announcements
Regional Representatives, Mission Presidents Called
1978 Pageants Scheduled
Record Number of New Stakes in 1977
President Tanner to Receive “Giant” Award
Ancient News: Symposium on Archaeology of the Scriptures
Preparing for the Temple
Model Library Open During Conference
LDS Scene
The Manti Temple
“Mormon Journal,” Ensign, Mar. 1978, 65–66